February Wrap-up

February is the hardest month for me to spell, and also the shortest of the year, but it seemed like as good as any to start our wrap-ups back up with:

245,329 blogs were created.

432,478 new users joined.

1,920,593 file uploads.

2,814,893 posts and 996 thousand new pages.

4,961,330 comments.

3,813,432 logins.

540,799,534 pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 304,499,648 on self-hosted blogs. (845,299,182 pageviews total across blogs we know about.)

726,789 active blogs in February, where “active” means they got a human visitor.

On a less exciting note, last month was the first in a long time where we had unplanned downtime caused by a criminal directing a DOS attack at us. We get these quite frequently and it’s usually no problem, but this was larger and we had to work closely with our upstream providers (Peer1/Server Beach and Layered Technologies) to get things back on track. We learned a lot in the process and should be able to better deal with attacks of this magnitude (estimates around 6 gigabits per second) in the future.

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You guys are doing a really great job. I am amazed at how soon and quickly my blogs land up in search engines. Only one thing – some further tweaking on STATS would be a great idea. Can you parse, slice and dice and give details on most popular search terms and words. Call it a sub-analysis if you will.

And country region details of hits. These two additions in stats will make this pure sex. Even now it is the best act in town. Believe you me.

My blog is one of those newly created ones in Feb., and some friends started theirs at the same time. I find the WordPress.com world an amazing place. It is a fascinating way to connect with others, whether they are family and friends or people I don’t even know. I still marvel at how easy it is to set up, customize, and manage.

Thanks for all the work you folks do in making it smooth and sweet!
SpaceAgeSage

On the difference between total blogs and active, it’s pretty common for services like ours to see a 10-30% active ratio, it just no one talks about it because they want to emphasize the big numbers. Most people also don’t scrub their numbers for spam, which we do.

We still put the totals out there, but internally we focus on activity like blogs that get traffic, posts, and logins.

GOOD JOB! i contributed to the downloads or whatever i just figured out how last month! anyway good job and good luck with the criminal attck thingamabobs hopefully they don’t get to big! anyway thanks for the update and february was a great month i think!!!
GOOD JOB WP!!
RED OUT (or bye in my language!) 😆

I remember a little downtime this last month and it freaked me out a moment, which proved [again] how much I care about being here at WP. Thanks to the entire WP / Automattic team for the awesome work you do every day! I most definitely appreciate you for that work. 🙂

Having recently joined the blogging world, all the statistics are very interesting to me. In addition, I am now curious to know how long ago wordpress was a “gleam in someone’s eye” Below I see comments that started in September 2005.